Police took an unintended feline approach to share news about a double homicide case with the press on Saturday when the social media team for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police switched on the cat filter option for an internet live stream. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Janelle Shoihet, who had been addressing the murders of Chynna Noelle Deese and Lucas Robertson Fowler, suddenly appeared behind the podium with cartoonish cat ears and whiskers. Shoihet was appealing to the public for help in the case when the filter activated.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police corrected the issue quickly and acknowledged that it was an internal error attributed to an "automatic setting." They have since replaced the filtered footage with a fully recorded, cat-free press conference covering the murders on their Facebook page. The bodies of Deese, a 24-year-old American, and her boyfriend Fowler, an Australian, were discovered in a remote area of British Columbia shot to death over the weekend.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police's unfortunately timed filter was not the first instance of public figures being filter-bombed while discussing serious matters. Pakistani politician Shaukat Yousafzai also took on unintended cat-like features during a June press event.